| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard: blankets for the sake of such a worthless old creature. 'Why did I not
leave her in the bush?' he asked. Those people carry the doctrine of
the survival of the fittest to its extreme, you see.
"It was the night after I had got rid of the old woman that I made my
first acquaintance with my friend yonder," and he nodded towards the
skull that seemed to be grinning down at us in the shadow of the wide
mantelshelf. "I had trekked from dawn till eleven o'clock--a long
trek--but I wanted to get on, and had turned the oxen out to graze,
sending the voorlooper to look after them, my intention being to inspan
again about six o'clock, and trek with the moon till ten. Then I got
into the waggon and had a good sleep till half-past two or so in the
Long Odds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: seek!" said Eleazer Cooper, in a tense and breathless voice.
The whole thing had happened so instantaneously and unexpectedly
that for the moment Mainwaring sat like one petrified. Had a
thunderbolt fallen from the silent sky and burst at his feet he
could not have been more stunned. He was like one held in the
meshes of a horrid nightmare, and he gazed as through a mist of
impossibility into the lineaments of the well-known, sober face
now transformed as from within into the aspect of a devil. That
face, now ashy white, was distorted into a diabolical grin. The
teeth glistened in the lamplight. The brows, twisted into a
tense and convulsed frown, were drawn down into black shadows,
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: out black dots on the horizon of the bluff-line, and these he
concluded were more guards stationed at another outlet.
Probably all the available men in the district were on duty.
Texans took a grim pleasure in such work. Duane remembered that
upon several occasions he had served such duty himself.
Duane peered through the branches and studied the lay of the
land. For several hundred yards the bluff could be climbed. He
took stock of those careless guards. They had rifles, and that
made vain any attempt to pass them in daylight. He believed an
attempt by night might be successful; and he was swiftly coming
to a determination to hide there till dark and then try it,
The Lone Star Ranger |
